Blue Like You

Archive for October 1st, 2008

Matt will be live-blogging the French Debate tonight, and I may throw in a comment or two myself.

Anyone interested in taking bets on how many times Jack Layton utters the words "kitchen table" tonight?

Of course, in French what would that be?  Table de cuisine?

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Update: More at SDA.

More live-blogging at Macleans.

Anyone here from the Richmond, B.C. riding?

I’d be very interested in hearing your thoughts on Liberal incumbent Raymond Chan’s efforts to smear Conservative candidate Alice Wong over her alleged association with the Canadian Alliance for Social Justice and Family Values Association and Defend Marriage .

Many Chinese Canadians have very traditional values and I wonder if Raymond Chan’s attack might just backfire?

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Related: The devil you know - National Post:

…In today’s political landscape, social conservatives seem to have become the scariest people in Canada. Rarely is a politician simply described as a social conservative; rather the label is used as a smear. When the Liberals or the Bloc or the NDP talk about the Tories’ "secret agenda" it is meant to evoke a fifth column of Christian reactionaries intent on creating a repressive theocracy…

It seems that free speech is only available to those who hold the politically-correct POV.

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Thursday Update: More witch hunts - Record.

Elizabeth May seems to have trouble shaking an anti-Jewish perception about her party.

Matt has come into possession of a leaked email between Green Party candidate Rosemary Frei and party worker Daryl Vernon whom she obviously relies on for her talking points.

Ms. May needs to explain where she stands regarding Vernon’s comments about "that onesided & partly deluded jewish community…"

More at Shotgun - The Green Party’s continuing Israel problem… and SDA.

Perhaps someone could ask her about this during the leadership debates.

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Update : Matt receives a response from the Green Party.